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Becca Aaronson is Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of the News Product Alliance, a global community of support and practice for news product thinkers, and served as their founding executive director. At the News Product Alliance, she develops training, community events, and other strategies to support news product leaders in developing more sustainable, adaptable, and audience-focused news organizations. She previously worked as the Director of Product at Chalkbeat, a non-profit, digital-first network of local newsrooms, overseeing digital product development and visual storytelling. Becca spent the first eight years of her career at The Texas Tribune, where she became their first-ever product manager. She was selected for both the Media Transformation Challenge (2021) and Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media (2018) at Poynter and has a bachelor’s degree in cultural theory from Scripps College in Claremont, California.